Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more advanced I.Q. for the persecuted moviegoing public, and perhaps some day it will persuade Hollywood that movies can be an uplifting rather than a degrading force in American life. There are innumerable fields of cultural entertainment as yet untapped by the movie moguls. All the great literature from Homer to Galsworthy lies open; the copyrights are for the most part non-existent; the entertainment value is unquestioned. The only debatable factor is the American intelligence; and America, by its cold reception of a great many of the flowers of the latest crop of Holywood output, has pretty well proved...
...Armed Whacker. Pete Gray of Nanticoke, Pa., a regular outfielder for the Memphis Chicks, knocked a homer over a 20-ft. fence 330 ft. from home plate in a Southern Association game at Chattanooga's Engel Stadium. He has no right arm. Batting against Pitcher Bob Albertson of the Chattanooga Lookouts, the cocky, 28-year-old slugger let two wild ones go by, then clouted his way around on the kind of pitch he dreams about-waist-high and a little inside. Said Gray: "It sure felt good...
...Homer Thomas, junk dealer: "He comes as near writing like a man talking as anybody I've ever read. Ernie's not afraid to get over there and dig this stuff...
Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, nettled at the Navy's dillydallying decision to delay until 1945 his trial for the Pearl Harbor disaster,* wrote a letter to Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, declared the "whole story of Pearl Harbor" has not been told, requested a "trial by court-martial at the earliest practicable date...
...February a U.S. battalion in Italy made a gallant and determined stand against the Germans from a cave on the rocky road that runs north from Anzio. Cut off from supplies and fighting for a week without replacements, the battalion, in the words of New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart, "withstood the cruelest pressure any American unit has been called upon to face in this...